The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1887-05-05
On Wednesday of last week occur

EDITOR.
On Wednesday of last week occur
red the brutal murder of DIR. W. T.
Northup, at Haverhill, Scioto county.
The cause of the murder is given as
ian old feud." So it was-the feud
that has always existed between right
and wrong. The murderer, Alf. Nc
Coy, keeps doggery at Haverhill,
and Northup was an earnest temper
ance man. He did. not believe in
MeCoy's personal liberty" to destroy
the boys of that community, and may
have been indiscreet enough to mildly
demonstrate with the Devils Agent.
Mccoy claims that the Doctor even
went so far on one occasion as to
have Mccoy arrested and fined for
selling whisky to a boy, on Sunday.
This was an offense calling for blood.
hence an opportunity was sought for
wiping out this and other scores, and
Mccoy and his son, with perhaps
others, brought on row with the
Doctor, and when he attempted to
defend himself with knife, attacked
him with revolvers and a shotgun,
literally shooting him to pieces. Alf.
Mccoy was badly cut in the fight.
The McCoys are in Jail at Portsmouth.
The spirit which pervades the
liquor traffic is murder. Human life
is held as being of far less Importance
than a few bottles of dog-leg whisky,
or few mugs of sinking beer. IL
any man dares to raise his voice on
the side of humanity and decency, let
him be murdered. That's the idea
And we may add that it is the same
idea that led the Shareholders of the
South to ruin. The thunders of Get
tysburg and Nashville were but an
swering echoes to the little, weak
fusilade, away back, at Harper's Ferry;
and the clattering of Sheridan's
troopers at Appomattox was the re-
frain of the Gathering of Henry
Wise's gallows. The murders of
Haddock in. Iowa, and Northup in
Ohio, will not be forgotten items in
the criminal history of this country
The Internal traffic is writing its own
death-warrant, in blood. Knowing
that nothing can be said in its favor,
and that it is all bad-eruelly. horri-
bly, bad-those engaged in it know of
no other arguments than personal
threats and personal assaults. The
devilish business reaches every grade
of the social system. 1t ruins the
home, breaks down character, destroys
reputation, changes men to demons,
and assumes to dictate all things,
from the bench to the pulpit, from
the cradle to the grave. If man
dares stand up in the strength of his
manhood and denounce this horrid
business, he must first be slandered
privately, and when the poor, misera-
BILE, driveling, covering whelps of
perdition see where they have made
mistake, they seek his ruin and death.
In their blindness and idiocy they
cannot see the great hand that is
writing human destiny across the
armament The workings Of Gods
justice have nothing to do with par
ties or cliques. They move right
along with the flight of years, and
the miserable wretches who have no
higher aim in life than the bowling
about the beauties Of the doggery
system, are enough to make the Crea-
tor once more repent that he made
man.
Men will differ on almost all the
affairs of life. There are doubtless
many men who think that Mccoy
ought to be sent to Congress for his
valiant defense of the Devils busi-
ness. Our way with such fellows
would be to hang them up by the
neck until they are dead. But no
matter, as to individual opinion Suf-
flee it that the whole business is filled
with murder and ruin; and when
man tells you there is anything else
in it, he either does not know the
business, or he is not to be believed.
Haverhill is a fine. church-going COM
munity. This doggery-keeper sought
to introduce a reign Of misery for the
purpose Of making money. Northup
denounced this traffic, and was killed.
This is the picture people are asked to
admire. The apologists for the horri-
BILE business realize that is unsafe for
the traffic to have peoples attention
called to it, hence they must silence
opposition. You poor, miserable, con-
temptible wretches, you might as
well attempt to silence Gods thun-
ders.
"As Mr.. Conkling, when states
man, neglected to identify his name